SPLITTING HAIRS
African wild dogs are South Africa’s most endangered carnivores. Now loved for their unique personalities, playful nature and reliance on pack dynamics for social support, wild dogs have had a chequered past filled with persecution and human conflict. This is largely due to the way wild dogs kill and consume their prey.
Unable to deliver a killing bite, and reliant on assistance from pack members to hunt species much larger than themselves, wild dogs disembowel their prey in a manner that can appear gruesome to anyone bearing witness to a successful hunt. Until
